Jeffrey Yarbrough, the Club Clearview complex and Liberty Noodles founder, just opened a new Deep Ellum club called Open. Said to capture "the eccentricities of Manhattan [what's wrong with the homegrown ones?], the sounds of European electronic music, the tastes of the world...", Open will feature a "shocking red futuristic booth shaped in a half pipe" (a what pipe?) as well as nibbles (caviar cream dip with sesame rice crackers and Grand Marnier chocolate fondue) crafted by Liberty Noodles Executive Chef Greg O'Neill...James Rowland, the lauded one-time Crescent Court chef who grabbed more accolades with Greenville Bar & Grill, has surfaced at Cape Buffalo Bar & Grill in Addison. Rowland says he may be a Buffalo staple through the end of the year. "You never know what transpires out of this stuff," he says...Scott Freeman, former executive sous chef at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, has salsa-ed over to Cuba Libre. "Dean [Fearing] sent him over, man--God bless 'im," cracks Nick Badovinus, chef/partner of Cuba Libre who is himself a Mansion alumnus. Freeman will take over as executive chef of the Latin bar-restaurant while Badovinus focuses on other Cuba brethren such as the nightclub Sense and the upscale restaurant Hibiscus, all taking shape in Cuba's Henderson neighborhood.